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Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico
By Peter Kuper and Martin Solares
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Painting a vivid, personal portrait of social and political upheaval in Oaxaca, Mexico, this unique memoir employs comics, bilingual essays, photos, and sketches to chronicle the events that unfolded around a teachers' strike and led to a seven-month siege. When award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper and his family moved to the 16th-century colonial town of Oaxaca in 2006, they planned to spend a quiet year or two enjoying a different culture and taking a break from the U.S. political climate under the Bush administration. What they hadn't counted on was landing in the epicenter of Mexico's biggest political struggle in recent years. Timely and compelling, this extraordinary firsthand account presents a distinct artistic vision of Oaxacan life, from explorations of the beauty of the environment to graphic portrayals of the fight between strikers and government troops that left more than 20 people dead, including American journalist Brad Will. This expanded paperback edition includes 32 pages of new material.
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Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper is a comic-book artist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Economist, The New Yorker, and many other magazines. He is the author of The System, Drawn to New York, and also illustrated an edition of Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
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